Ep. 612 - Shaming the Wise
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Summary
Trump announces a peace deal with the United Arab Emirates, a country that is pro-Western and pro-American. What does this mean for peace in the Middle East? Is this a good or bad thing? And why does God care?
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A couple of weeks ago, President Trump announced that one Middle Eastern nation would be making
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peace with Israel. We always hear this term peace in the Middle East as though it's something
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completely unthinkable, something that's never gonna happen. And President Trump brings us that
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one country, right? So what do people say? Oh, it's not a big deal. It's just the United Arab
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Emirates. It's not, who cares? You know, they're pretty pro-Western. Then he announces that there
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will be a peace deal between Israel and a second Middle Eastern nation, Bahrain. That happened
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yesterday across the street at the White House. Oh, well, that's, come on, it's not that big a deal.
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And then in a typical Trumpian 11th hour surprise, he says, oh, by the way, we're looking at peace
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deals with, oh, just about nine different nations, possibly including Saudi Arabia. Here's the
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president announcing the big news. I do things differently. If you, if you listen to the three
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world leaders today, and these are highly respected leaders and countries, UAE is a,
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is a tremendously respected warrior. I mean, they're warriors. They're a very strong,
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respected country. If you listen to what they said, nobody thought of the plan that I thought
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of. And it's going around the back door. I call it going around the smart door and coming in a
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different way. And we have many other countries going to be joining us and they're going to be
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joining us soon. We'll have, I can, I mean, I think seven or eight or nine, we're going to have
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a lot of other countries joining us, including the big ones. We already have the big one, but
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including the big ones. And this is not something that the people that you mentioned would be able
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to be doing. And it's not something that my critics thought was possible. And now they say,
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wow, that was a good idea. I will say it's gotten rave reviews, even from the New York Times and Tom
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Friedman and a lot of people that don't like Donald Trump too much. Why do we care about peace in the
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Middle East? Because we thought it was impossible. And yet this guy, this billionaire reality TV show
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host seems to be on the roads and already making steps toward that goal. What does he say? He says
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going in around the smart door, all the smart people, all the geniuses, they couldn't work it
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out. The region just got worse and worse and worse. And then this guy, Donald Trump, they all said was
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a buffoon. Turns out he's the one to actually do it. How is this possible? Because God uses the foolish
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things of this world to shame the wise. He uses the weak things to shame the strong, the despised and low
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things. The things that are not to shame the things that are. Big, big lesson in here for politics.
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I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment from yesterday, actually it's right, right on this topic.
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This is from G Daddy who said, yeah, we'll have peace in the Middle East has been a description of the
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impossible or pipe dream task. Looks like we'll have to change that now to, yeah, we'll have a
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peaceful protest in a Democrat city. Yeah, because the peace in the Middle East is probably going to
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happen. Peaceful protest in a Democrat city. That, my friends, is a true, true pipe dream.
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Why is this all happening in the Middle East? Well, you know, as we're talking about God using the
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foolish things to shame the strong, I have noticed God has had an interest in the Middle East since,
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you know, the dawn of time. So you're looking at a place that has been so rife with, with political
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chaos just about forever and certainly in recent years. And yet that's a topic that the president
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goes after. I guess every president has tried to establish some kind of peace in the Middle East.
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Didn't work out particularly well for the last few guys who tried it. Barack Obama, George Bush,
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Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton probably did better than the other two. Trump doing better than all of them.
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How is this possible? Because we're told that Trump is an idiot and all the smart people don't like
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him because all the smart people know so much better. This is true, not just, we'll move past
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the Middle East. This is true most clearly in the realm of science. You know, Trump and all the
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Republicans, they're science deniers. Do you know Scientific American, that vaunted journal,
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Scientific American, is endorsing a political candidate now. Scientific American is endorsing
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Joe Biden because Trump is so anti-scientist. The scientists with a trademark over the S,
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the experts, they hate Trump. So Scientific American, for the first time in its 175 year
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history, endorses a presidential candidate. They said they were compelled to do so. They said that
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President Trump, quote, has badly damaged the U.S. and his people because he rejects evidence and
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science. He's attacked environmental protections, medical care, researchers, and public science agencies
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that help this country prepare for its greatest challenges. He and his vice president have
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flouted the local mask rules. Oh no, he hasn't muzzled himself all the time. We told him to shut
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up, but he won't, he won't shut up. He just keeps doing things and succeeding. He's repeatedly lied to
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the public about the deadly threat of the disease. He's denying reality and hobbling all sorts of U.S.
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science agencies. Obviously, this has nothing to do with science. As we talked about earlier on this
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show, we're actually at the beginning of this virus, when everyone said, we need to listen to the
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public health experts. You got to look at that phrase. What is a public health expert?
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A political scientist. Public refers to politics, and then health expert, I guess, could refer to a
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scientist. So you got science and you got politics. And this clearly, this endorsement is politics.
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And it's divorced from reality, isn't it? You talk about Donald Trump being divorced from reality.
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Let's not forget that the so-called public health experts have gotten every single prediction
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about this virus wrong from the beginning. All the public health experts and the Democratic Party,
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right, they're basically part of the same institution, were the ones saying that we
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shouldn't have a travel ban from China, who went along with the World Health Organization,
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which had been infiltrated by China. It was a puppet of the Chinese regime.
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They were, they just got everything about the virus wrong. And you know who got a lot of it right
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as, as best you can during a pandemic? Donald Trump, that fool, that idiot, that unscientific,
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inexpert guy who just happens to be more correct than all of the experts. Greatest example of this,
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this kind of politicized science comes from Andrew Cuomo. Andrew Cuomo, the very unfortunate governor
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of New York, the guy who handled the virus worse than anybody. He just tweeted out yesterday, quote,
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science knows. That's the tweet. Because we've now entered the stoner freshman hears part of a
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philosophy lecture phase of Andrew Cuomo's governorship. Science knows, you know. Trouble with that tweet
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though. Well, there are a lot of problems with that tweet. One is science cannot know. I mean,
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the phrase itself semantically doesn't make any sense. Because what is science? Science properly
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understood is knowledge from shire in, in Latin. Science now we use it to refer to this method of
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empirical study. Either way, knowledge cannot know. People can know things. Andrew Cuomo can't know very
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much at all, but people can know things. But knowledge cannot know. Knowledge cannot do the
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process of having knowledge because knowledge is itself knowledge. You know, you dig, man.
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Consider the kind of people who are talking about science in this way, in this, in this deified way.
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They're talking about it like science is God, like science is, is everything. The, the pro science guy,
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Andrew Cuomo, had the worst response to the virus. The anti-science guy, Donald Trump,
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had a much better response to the virus. Even at the state level, people were always attacking Ron
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DeSantis in Florida, but a much more elderly population than in New York. He's the anti-science
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Republican. He handled the virus much, much better than the pro science guy. How does that happen?
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What, what about, what about good old science? You know, some other things that science knows. Science
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knows that if a man wants to become a woman and then injects himself with a lot of hormones,
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that will make him happier. That's what we've been told by science, right? Study just came out.
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Just not true. Just not true. The American Journal of Psychiatry issued a major correction the other
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day. Big retraction. Reanalysis demonstrates that neither quote gender affirming hormone treatment
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nor gender affirming surgery. This is when you, a man basically is mutilated to look more like a woman
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has reduced the need for mental health services. And then, uh, this was put out by public discourse
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is a gender anxious people deserve better. I kind of like that term people who have anxiety about
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their sex. It sounds kind of PC, but it's a little more accurate than, than some of the PC terms for
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transgenderism or whatever it is. We were told by science, remember settled science that, uh, people
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who are confused about their, their sex need to mutilate themselves. And we need to do this to
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children too. We need to inject them full of hormones and castrate them and permanently change
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their bodies because it'll make them feel better. Turns out no evidence of that whatsoever. As we
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have been saying from the very beginning, I actually did a lecture tour that was in part about this issue
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called men are not women and other uncomfortable truths. We were attacked. We were called anti-science.
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Well, what does the science really say? How come all those egghead experts in lab coats are totally
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wrong? And how come the mean old orange man who is a vulgarian and a reality TV star, how come he keeps
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That's how the anti-science candidate is comparing against all of those vaunted experts. So how's the
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pro-science candidate doing? You know, science knows, science, knowledge. That would be Joe Biden,
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right? Well, that scientific candidate doesn't even seem to know who's at the top of the presidential
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ticket. Here is Mr. Biden introducing the ticket of Biden-Harris. Nope. He couldn't quite remember
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that. Harris-Biden administration is going to relaunch that effort and keep pushing further to
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make it easier for military spouses and veterans to find meaningful careers, to ensure teachers know
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how to support military children in their classrooms, and to improve support for caregivers and survivors
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so much more than we do now. People are attacking Joe Biden here because they're saying, gosh,
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this guy forgot who's at the top of the ticket and who's at the bottom of the ticket. He forgot that
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he is the one who's supposed to be running for president, not Kamala Harris. And now this is
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plausible because he also often forgets his name. He referred to the O'Biden administration back under
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Barack Obama. He has forgotten all sorts of things. I actually think this is a moment of candor from
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Joe Biden, which is that it's pretty clear from his behavior that if heaven forfend he is elected
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president, he won't be running the show. He obviously won't be running the show. He doesn't know
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where he is. He's been locked away in a basement. Last night we had essentially a presidential debate
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with only one candidate. That was on ABC with George Stephanopoulos. We'll get to that in a
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second because President Trump did very well there. Suffice it to say he did very well. But the format
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of it was basically a presidential debate, except they wouldn't send Joe Biden because obviously
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Joe Biden is going to be devoured for lunch if he goes and does anything like that. So yes,
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I don't know that it'll be Harris running the country. Probably what it will be is the liberal
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establishment, which is why these so-called scientists, these fake scientists, like people at
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Scientific American and all the egghead experts interested in public health are not interested
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in health in particular. They're not interested in medicine in particular. They're interested in
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politics and they're interested in power. And if Joe Biden wins, he will be the empty suit
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vessel of this liberal establishment power in which all of these egghead experts think that they can
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control our lives. That has been the explicit goal of the progressive project going back at least 100
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years, at least to Woodrow Wilson. And really before that, that you have a science of administration,
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a science of history, a science of politics that takes choice away from we, the people takes choice
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away from our constitutional system, gives it to these unaccountable technocrats who are going to
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make all of our decisions for us. And who is the vessel of that? This empty suit, Joe Biden,
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Joe Biden getting off an airplane, ostensibly to do a campaign event, gets off the plane and he does
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that kind of typical politician thing. He waves at all the people. Trouble was, he was waving at no
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one because nobody was around his plane. He's stepping off the jet. There's maybe two bodyguards
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and then he's, he's waving at pretend crowds of people.
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He then turns, so he's got these to his right. He's got two presumably secret service agents and
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he starts waving, not at them, but at imaginary crowds of people behind them.
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And then on the other side of Joe Biden, he hears a reporter say, Mr. Vice President, by the way,
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Joe Biden's not the vice president. He should not be referred to as Mr. Vice President. But then he
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turns around and, and, you know, obviously doesn't answer their questions because he doesn't answer any
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of the press's questions now. They still love him for it. But this was, this was not just some
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mistake that he thought the secret service agent was somewhere else. He was pretending just like
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he's pretending to be at the top of his ticket, except when he forgets and he puts Kamala Harris
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up there. Then the greatest moment for this pro science genius candidate, this brilliant candidate
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who in 50 years in government never accomplished to, never accomplished very much of anything,
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maybe one or two halfway decent bills that he's now disavowing. 50 years in government,
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all this expert doesn't give us very much. It actually brings us to the situation that President
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Trump had to come in and correct. But there was one wonderful moment when he pandered to Hispanics
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free shipping. Biden then shows up to a campaign event. This is for Hispanic Heritage Month.
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Hispanic, by the way, is only a racial designation that's about 40 or so years old. It was invented
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by a bunch of these political science types and a quarter of Hispanics in the United States today
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don't even identify with the label. But whatever. He shows up to Hispanic Heritage Month. That's,
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you know, this kind of racial division is part and parcel of the left-wing project. And he decides
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that Joe, typically, is going to pander to the audience. How is he going to do it? By playing a song
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from his phone popularized by Justin Bieber. I just have one thing to say. Hang on here.
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All right. There he is. There you go. Swaying side to side. Laughing.
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I'll tell you what, if I had the talent of any one of these people, I'd be,
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I'd be elected president by acclamation. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank
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you. And, uh, hello and happy Hispanic, Hispanic Heritage Month. Hello. Thank you. If I had the
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talent of that noted Hispanic, Justino Bibero, oh man, that'd be, I'd be great because I'm old
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pandering Joe and he, you like him right now. Yes, it's true. The song has been done by actual
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Hispanic artists, but can you imagine this level of pandering? It's, it's why I said this about Biden
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from the very beginning. It's not that Biden is some, you know, radical leftist. It's not,
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it's not that he's conservative or moderate either. It's not that Joe Biden is a vicious liar.
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It's not that Joe Biden tells the truth. Joe Biden is a cynical pandering politician. All Joe Biden is,
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is a wink and a smile. That's all he is. It's all he's ever been in politics. There's a, there's
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actually a website that's been up for over 10 years now, I think called joebidenseeeth.com.
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And it's illustrative because Joe Biden is just a sort of caricature of a politician.
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He wants to slap you on the back and say, oh, hey, you're great, buddy. So he just goes there,
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he goes, okay, all right, what, what can I use to pander to people? I'll just play this stupid song
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and I'll pretend to dance around to it. Okay. And then I'll say that, yeah, these guys are so much
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more talented than me. Ha ha. Give me your votes. It's Joe Biden. That is silly pandering,
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not very knowledgeable, not very expert, not very scientific, but this is the establishment
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that is controlling us. And it's controlling our institutions of highest learning, particularly
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on this issue of racial pandering. You want to talk about experts, not knowing their own field,
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university of Chicago, a once great university. This was once a top tier university in the United
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States. The English department at the university of Chicago for this coming year is not going to be
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accepting graduate students unless these graduate students want to focus on black studies. Black
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studies is a fake academic discipline. It is a merely part of an ideological campaign called
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critical theory. It, it, you don't learn anything really doing it, but it's a, it's a way to train for
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political activism and to destroy the very culture that you're supposed to be studying in English.
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But there's a broader point. We won't, we don't need to get into critical theory. President Trump has
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made some comments on this and maybe we'll get into it a little bit later in the
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week or next week. I just want to focus on the English department. If you don't do black studies,
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you can't study English as a graduate student at Chicago. I don't know if you know very much
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about the English language or the English peoples. For the long history of the English language,
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the vast majority of them, statistically, I guess a hundred percent, you know, obviously there are some
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exceptions in the more modern era, but generally for the history of English, it's been white people
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writing in English because the English are white because the English language has typically been
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used by the English people and the English people are very, very white. So if you don't focus on black
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studies, say for instance, you want to study Shakespeare or Chaucer or Milton or Dunn or Wordsworth or Shelley
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or Keats or Beowulf, or if you want to study any, Beowulf is going really, really far back. We don't,
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you don't even need to. Let's just look even more recently up until this very modern era and up until
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black studies became an academic discipline a few decades ago.
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You can't read that, that English language anymore. This, this was a, something that began actually
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at Yale a few years ago when Yale decolonized the English department. You no longer had to
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study Shakespeare or Chaucer to graduate from Yale summa cum laude in English. Preposterous. I bet you
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Donald Trump, who they always say is inarticulate, doesn't have a good handling of the English language.
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I bet you Donald Trump could have told you more about the English language than the University of
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Chicago, English department professors because they've become absolutely mad through their
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abstract theories. English as a discipline, they write, has a long history of providing
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aesthetic rationalizations for colonization, exploitation, extraction, and anti-blackness.
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What does any of that jargon mean? Not very much, but these are the genius people. These are the people
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with PhDs. These are the experts and the scientists, but God uses the foolish things to confound the wise.
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I mentioned yesterday on the show that there's this funny thing in America where all the very fancy
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experts with the very fancy jackets and, you know, very fancy degrees, they're always shocked to learn
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that your average run-of-the-mill American knows as much and usually more than they do. Bill Buckley
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famously said he'd rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the phone book than the faculty of
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Harvard College. Me too. Add Chicago and Yale to that list as well. Why is that? Because when people
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get a bunch of fancy degrees and PhD and all the letters after their name, they seem very wise, but
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very often they're very, very foolish. And people who seem as though they're foolish often are much
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wiser. How is it? Well, this, this came to total fruition. This theory came to fruition last night
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in the Trump town hall, which we will touch on briefly. First though, I've got to thank our
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now is the time when we're all online so much. It's, it's very important to nip these things in
00:25:13.480
the bud, catch these sorts of things early. Following in the vein of the Chicago English
00:25:18.380
department, uh, the Markles, you know, Meghan Markle and Mr. Markle, formerly known as Prince
00:25:23.320
Harry back when he was a Royal and back when he was a man, uh, have, have inked this multimillion
00:25:28.660
dollar deal with Netflix. Well, now Meghan Markle wants to do a movie about the life of the founder of
00:25:35.060
the BLM organization, Patrice Colores. She's that woman who, who described herself on camera
00:25:40.840
as a trained Marxist who kind of outed the organization as a Marxist front organization.
00:25:46.040
She's been an activist who's taken money from George Soros. I know you're not allowed to say
00:25:49.600
that anymore, but you can trace the money. It's pretty simple. That's what they want to make the
00:25:54.320
movie of. These people who are in the ruling class, I mean, you know, she's a Royal, right? Or sort of a
00:26:00.060
Royal actually in the ruling class, but BLM and the people funding BLM and the scientific establishment
00:26:06.480
and the media and all the liberal established ruling class is pushing this kind of radicalism
00:26:13.540
on you that your average common fella on the street would look at and say, nah, I, I don't agree with
00:26:19.080
the BLM organization. I don't think we should undermine the nuclear family. I don't think that
00:26:24.480
we need to foster an anti-cisgender network, whatever kind of crazy language they use.
00:26:32.120
Practically much wiser than this ruling class. This ruling class, by the way, which has now
00:26:37.560
tied itself to Netflix, Barack Obama tied himself to Netflix. He's getting zillions of dollars from
00:26:42.560
this, like Meghan Markle. And Netflix is pushing pedophile, happy movies, pedophile, pleasing movies
00:26:50.020
like cuties. We talked about cuties earlier in the week. They're pushing this. This is their number
00:26:54.880
one product right now. They're standing by it. It's a degenerate, filthy movie that obviously should
00:27:00.400
not be there. They never have to answer for this sort of thing. Your average person on the street
00:27:04.780
has a natural revulsion to something like cuties. What, what the great philosopher Leon Kass described
00:27:11.040
as the wisdom of repugnance. You just know on your gut level, you think, ah, this movie,
00:27:16.140
there's just something wrong with it. Even beyond cuties, this BLM organization that calls itself
00:27:21.960
Marxist, there's just something wrong with it. Wisdom of repugnance. The old common people seem to have
00:27:27.500
that. The experts and the wise do not. Speaking of cuties, by the way, the director of cuties,
00:27:31.840
Maimouna Ducouré is defending cuties at the Toronto Film Festival. And it shows you, it actually shows you
00:27:40.700
something on this point that we're talking about, the wise and the foolish. She says, she's defending the
00:27:45.840
movie. She says, it's bold, it's feminist, but it's so important and necessary to create debate
00:27:49.760
and try to find solutions. For me as an artist, it's a real issue. It's important to see someone
00:27:54.940
like you on the screen and to grow up with a lot of possibilities. So of course, diversity inclusion
00:28:00.100
have to be the keys to progress in our cinema. Now all of that's just gobbledygook, stupid words,
00:28:04.800
but she is getting to one of the real defenses here of the movie. I think it's a preposterous defense,
00:28:11.060
but it sounds plausible, which is there is a problem in fundamentalist Islam of treating young
00:28:19.080
girls poorly and in a sense, sort of sexualizing them or at least focusing, you know, you've got
00:28:26.300
general mutilation, other disturbing aspects of the sexualization of young girls. You have that there.
00:28:32.580
And then in decadent Western France, you have another type of disturbing sexualization of young
00:28:38.180
girls, namely this WAP culture of everything is licentious and pornographic and disgusting.
00:28:43.560
And both have these pitfalls. That's, that's the defensible possible message of cuties, right?
00:28:48.680
Problem with cuties is in talking about these things, it actually sexualizes the young girls,
00:28:55.200
right? These are 11 year old actresses and they're putting them on screen and having them do all these
00:28:58.860
sexual things. That's why the movie is indefensible. Well, what this woman's saying is it's very
00:29:04.340
important to see someone just like you on screen. And it reminds me of a conversation I had with John
00:29:07.840
Voight, you know, the great actor, John Voight, a man starred in many very important films,
00:29:14.240
Midnight Cowboy, Anaconda, that sort of thing. I was sitting with John Voight and Senator Cruz.
00:29:19.040
We were doing a show, part of the verdict show. And John Voight pointed out that the acting has,
00:29:27.640
has gotten better over time. And this is true as you had the kind of more left-wing acting theorists
00:29:33.680
and actors come up. You had guys like Brando, right? Who just gave a more naturalistic kind of acting
00:29:39.140
than the people who came before him. Some of those movie stars that came before him, Cary Grant, those
00:29:42.800
types, they were really in these wonderful movies, but the acting became much more naturalistic. And
00:29:47.840
the acting today is very naturalistic. And you have these method actors who, who are, you know,
00:29:52.420
totally changing their body chemistry, all these sorts of things for the role. And then it occurred to
00:29:57.620
me. I was talking to another, another guy, not an actor. I was talking to John Marini, a great political
00:30:03.680
philosopher and writer. And John Marini pointed out, the acting has gotten so much better, but the
00:30:09.660
stories have become so much less real. In the old days, the stories were so real and relatable to so
00:30:16.180
many people. And the acting was maybe a little bit worse. But now all we care about is the acting. We
00:30:20.400
don't really care about the stories. So all the old Oscar movies, people used to relate to them. Now
00:30:25.240
nobody, who relates to these Oscar movies? Was it Moonlight was one of the stories a few years ago?
00:30:30.360
All these kind of weird Oscar movies that nobody actually goes and sees, but the acting is so good.
00:30:36.820
It's because we don't, we don't understand even what reality means anymore, right? We'll take the
00:30:42.580
emotional reality of these kind of individual people and moments in the acting, but we've lost
00:30:48.340
sight of the bigger story. We've lost sight of like what this actually means. And so on any little
00:30:54.200
tiny, say it's a statistic for COVID, we can zoom in really close, but we don't see the bigger picture.
00:30:59.940
We don't see what it means for society. We've, we've had, we've had pandemics before. We've had
00:31:03.980
plagues before in the world. This is the first time we've shut down the entire country, the entire
00:31:08.880
world over something like this. Why? Because we've lost sight of this bigger picture. And often it's the
00:31:13.620
common people and the foolish people and the rubes and the idiots and the deplorables and the
00:31:17.360
irredeemables who can see that kind of thing while the experts cannot see that kind of thing.
00:31:21.660
And that's what president Trump did yesterday in this town hall. We will get to that right now.
00:31:27.280
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00:32:19.160
Trumpy town hall. Welcome back to the wonderful Trumpy town hall. He killed it. That's the big
00:32:39.280
takeaway. The big takeaway is President Trump goes in to what was certain to be a hostile town hall
00:32:44.340
with George Stephanopoulos, who is now a pretend reporter and anchor and journalist for ABC. But in
00:32:50.840
reality, he's Clinton's ex-hatchet man. He was Bill Clinton's communications director in the White
00:32:56.380
House. He's a Democrat operative who now, because he has Democratic privilege and he's a member of this
00:33:02.520
ruling class, we tolerate as a journalist. So Trump goes in. He doesn't care. He knows that the audience
00:33:07.800
is going to be handpicked and it's going to be hostile. He knows it's on a hostile network. He
00:33:12.240
knows it's with a hostile interviewer or moderator, quote unquote. And he knows that his opponent,
00:33:18.900
his ostensible opponent, Joe Biden, isn't even going to show up because he's not capable of doing
00:33:22.500
something like this. So he goes into the lion's den. Maybe some people thought he shouldn't do this
00:33:28.380
because it's so stacked against him. And what does he do? He kills it. He knocks it out of the park.
00:33:33.500
There are a few moments in particular, though, that highlight what happened here. Because sometimes
00:33:38.540
people think Trump is too rash. He's too emotional. He's too this. He's too that. He went into this
00:33:44.120
thing prepared. He went in measured. He went in strong and he went in likable. The key is he tailored
00:33:52.220
his responses to the medium. He didn't talk like he was on Twitter. He didn't talk like he was on cable
00:33:59.600
news. He didn't talk. He talked like he was on network news, which is a little, a little bit of
00:34:04.600
a more mature audience. They like it to be a little more calm and respectful. And he did that. This guy
00:34:10.380
understands the medium. And he was asked a question about this, actually, about all the tweets and
00:34:15.820
everything. He was asked a question from a guy about why he's not presidential, why he's not always
00:34:22.080
nice, why he doesn't have the kind of pandering, soft, back-slapping air of someone like, I don't know,
00:34:28.700
Joe Biden. Trump's answer typified his presidency. So I'm fighting a battle. It's a big battlefield
00:34:39.440
and I have a lot of forces against me. I have the media, which I call the fake news because a lot of
00:34:44.220
it is fake. And I mean a big, as you understand, a lot of it is fake. I'm fighting a lot of forces.
00:34:50.800
Sometimes you don't have time to be totally, as you would say, presidential. You have to get things
00:34:56.540
done. I think I've done more than any other president in the first three and a half years.
00:35:01.760
When you look at what we've done for tax cuts and regulation cuts and the vets, all of the things
00:35:07.320
that we've done for the West, we have a 91% approval factor now for the vets. So we rebuilt our
00:35:12.660
military. We created Space Force. I mean, we did so many things. Right to try, which is so incredible
00:35:18.440
and so successful. You know what right to try is. We did more. I really believe it more than any other
00:35:24.220
president in the first three and a half years. That's a great answer. It vindicates a thesis
00:35:29.400
that I have been pushing and actually the Ann Coulter put forward first now for years. The
00:35:34.460
typical argument about Trump is that people voted for him because of his personality in spite of his
00:35:41.920
policies. They just got a kick out of how brash he was and he's not politically correct. And so
00:35:46.320
they'll vote for him even though his policies are all kooky. That was the consensus conservative view,
00:35:50.320
but it was BS. I knew it was BS and wrote this book called, it had a funny title. It was called
00:35:54.700
In Trump We Trust, E Pluribus Awesome. Slightly silly title, but the book itself was very good. And
00:36:00.560
she said, it's the opposite. And I've been saying it's the opposite from the beginning too, which is
00:36:04.180
people voted for Trump in spite of his personality for his policies because he was offering genuinely
00:36:11.460
different policies, not just from Hillary Clinton, though that was important too, but even from his
00:36:16.200
fellow Republicans, he was seeing something that even his fellow Republicans, the vast majority of
00:36:21.120
them couldn't see. And that was his answer here. They said, why aren't you presidential? He says,
00:36:25.980
look, I'm me. Okay. Maybe you like me. Maybe you get a kick out of me, especially if you're a New
00:36:31.200
Yorker, like Drew and I, I think like Trump a little bit more than some conservatives because we're
00:36:35.880
New Yorkers. So we, we understand the way he talks. We have a lot of family members who talk that way.
00:36:40.260
But even if you don't, let's say you don't like the way he talks, look at what he's doing. Look at
00:36:46.560
what I'm doing. Look at the reality. Yeah. All these expert, wise, brilliant people, they spin a good
00:36:52.880
yarn, man. They talk so good. Oh, their theories are so great. Except they don't work in reality to, to help
00:37:00.040
people, to make our politics better, to bring peace to the Middle East, to fix some of our manufacturing
00:37:05.840
problems, to fix our trade problems, to fix our economy, to fix our country. They don't actually
00:37:11.460
do those things. And my policies do. And all my dumb, deplorable, stupid, irredeemable policies,
00:37:17.960
turns out they actually accomplish the things that apparently we're all supposed to be accomplishing.
00:37:23.260
That's a great answer. Then getting back to racial grievance, you see the difference between the real
00:37:30.580
and the imagined and the wise and the foolish. Why the reality here was central to this town hall
00:37:35.760
on several questions. There was a guy who gets up, I think he referred to himself as a pastor. I don't
00:37:40.660
know if he was, if he was a pastor or not, but he gets up and he was immediately hostile to the
00:37:45.380
president. And he asked this question about the ghettos. He said, you know, you're talking about
00:37:50.460
how America was, is going to become great again. Well, America was never great for black people
00:37:56.960
living in the ghettos. Trump's response tells you a lot. How you doing, Mr. President? Good.
00:38:02.000
You've coined the phrase, make America great again. When has America been great for African
00:38:07.620
Americans in the ghetto of America? Are you aware of how tone deaf that comes off to African American
00:38:12.780
community? Well, I can say this. We have tremendous African American support. You've probably seen it
00:38:18.620
in the polls. We're doing extremely well with African American, Hispanic American at levels that
00:38:26.340
So he just totally shuts down the premise, right? And he had, he had two false premises here. This,
00:38:32.180
this questioner. The first one was that Trump coined the phrase, make America great again. He
00:38:35.460
didn't. He took it from Ronald Reagan and Ronald Reagan may have taken it from Richard Nixon. And of
00:38:39.300
course, this phrase, make America great again has a long history in America because in this country,
00:38:43.360
we used to like our country until not so long ago. So he shuts that down. And then he gets to,
00:38:50.500
I mean, he sort of, he sort of goes along and he goes, okay, I see where you're going, but don't
00:38:54.380
forget people used to love this country. Then he shuts down the premise that it's tone deaf to
00:38:59.340
black Americans. Why? Because Trump is doing better among black Americans, according to the polls,
00:39:03.120
than other Republican candidates have. He goes, I don't, maybe it's, maybe you're the one who's
00:39:08.100
tone deaf questioner. Then this questioner pushes further. He pushes on this issue of the ghettos and
00:39:15.500
why, you know, the, the idea that make America great again is this new phrase that's just been coined
00:39:21.200
is the opposite of reality. We used to like this country. And now because of things like critical
00:39:27.320
theory and all this left-wing claptrap in academia that all the wise people are pushing. Now we hate
00:39:34.300
our country, but that's the new thing. America was never great is the new idea. That's the new phrase.
00:39:40.280
And it's the one that this guy's pushing. He pushes it further. I mean, your statement is though,
00:39:45.060
make it great again. So historically, uh, the African-American experience, especially in these,
00:39:50.180
out of these ghettos that have been out of red line, uh, historically, these ghettos that have
00:39:54.540
systemically been set up and treated the way that they have been, the conditions of the drugs,
00:39:59.220
the guns and everything else that actually created the symptoms for what we see, uh, that you profess to
00:40:06.140
be just the democratic cities in themselves. Uh, these things have historically been happening for
00:40:11.120
African-Americans in these ghettos, and we have not been seeing a change, uh, quite frankly,
00:40:16.780
under your administration. Everything here is so backwards and wrong. So let's try to parse it very
00:40:22.620
quickly. First of all, what Trump points at is you're talking about all these cities. All these
00:40:26.640
cities are run by Democrats, all of them, every single one. So don't take it up with me, man. I don't
00:40:32.940
run the cities. I may, I'm the president. I run the federal government. If you've got an issue with
00:40:37.380
some slums in the cities, talk to the Democrats who've been there. So he goes, okay, fine.
00:40:40.220
Democrats run them, but these problems have been on for a long time. Like, right. The Democrats have
00:40:44.100
been running them for a long time, believe it or not. So yeah, it's a longstanding problem for that.
00:40:47.980
But then it gets worse because there's this philosophical base where he says, look,
00:40:52.280
there's drugs, there's crime in these neighborhoods. These are, these are tough neighborhoods and,
00:40:57.740
and those are creating the symptoms that we're seeing. What, what symptoms are you talking about?
00:41:01.480
The symptoms you're seeing of these bad neighborhoods are the drugs and the crime. The drugs and the
00:41:08.560
crime can't create the, the symptoms of the drugs and the crime. Kind of like Andrew Cuomo's mistake
00:41:14.240
here that science can't know because knowledge is knowledge, knowledge, knowledge itself cannot know.
00:41:19.080
So what is causing these problems? Notice here, this guy never has any sense of personal
00:41:26.600
responsibility. This guy never has sense of even local responsibility. It's all orange man's fault
00:41:33.240
that the cities, the inner cities have been bad for a long time in this country. Well, the cities have been
00:41:39.480
bad. They've gotten worse. They've gotten better because of some policies, because of some cultures
00:41:43.360
falling apart. Yeah, those are problems, but no sense. And this guy talking as though America's so awful.
00:41:50.420
This is a new idea among all demographics, including black people, including people who live in cities.
00:41:55.420
Go read Booker Washington's Up From Slavery. He was the leading civil rights advocate of his time.
00:41:59.980
That was a man who was deeply grateful to America, loved this country, wanted to make things better,
00:42:06.060
but had a, had a base gratitude for his country and didn't, didn't whine and complain about all sorts
00:42:12.060
of problems to people who didn't create those problems at all and actually trying to help fix
00:42:16.220
those problems. This guy saying, oh, the black experience in America has always been terrible.
00:42:21.140
This is a guy who is speaking on national television to the president of the United States.
00:42:25.700
This is a guy who is embodying privilege. And he says, oh, it's all a terrible, awful,
00:42:32.960
no good, rotten country. There, there's no fixing that disease. I mean, that, that requires proper
00:42:39.160
education, meaning you've got to be raised correctly. You've got to know how to behave yourself. And that
00:42:44.020
is not how you behave yourself to the president of the United States. That's not how you should think.
00:42:49.020
He clearly was not well educated, albeit I'm sure he's being vaunted as this brilliant man speaking truth
00:42:54.780
to power. Then you had another woman. You had a woman embodying the same sort of thing. She was
00:43:00.920
even more rude to the president. She was even more expert. She had a PhD after all. And she said things
00:43:06.280
that were even stupider. Hi, Mr. President, I was born with a disease called sarcoidosis.
00:43:14.680
And from the day I was born, I was considered uninsurable. That disease started in my skin,
00:43:21.560
moved to my eyes, into my optic nerves. And when I went to graduate school, into my brain.
00:43:27.700
When it hit my brain, I was automatically eligible for disability for the rest of my life.
00:43:33.460
I chose instead to get a bachelor's degree, a master's degree, a PhD, and become a professor.
00:43:41.080
It is great, except I still have similar healthcare problems. It costs me with copays,
00:43:46.620
I'm still paying almost $7,000 a year in addition to the copay. And should pre-existing conditions,
00:43:55.420
which Obamacare brought into, brought to fruition, be removed?
00:44:02.360
Without, please stop and let me finish my question, sir.
00:44:05.600
No, he shouldn't have let this woman. I mean, he was being very polite because this was network TV.
00:44:10.060
And I don't know. I mean, he was being more polite than I probably would have.
00:44:12.720
This woman is being extraordinarily rude. She's saying very dumb things,
00:44:16.380
shows you the state of the American university, that this woman could have a PhD.
00:44:20.980
Yes. And the pre-existing conditions that Barack Obama brought to fruition,
00:44:25.300
what does that mean? She's just saying words, just saying gobbledygook.
00:44:28.840
And worse than that is her attitude, this attitude of pride. Yes. It's very impressive
00:44:33.540
that I have a PhD. If these are the wise people, if, if all these eggheads who hate America
00:44:40.820
at, at every university now, every, even the most elite universities, they're probably the worst,
00:44:46.840
then a PhD doesn't seem to be worth very much, does it? All of these degrees, all these alphabet
00:44:51.800
letters, so wise they are, doesn't, doesn't seem to understand very much. She's so rude to this guy.
00:44:58.280
Clearly wasn't well-educated because like, for instance, in the Italian language, when you,
00:45:02.460
the word rude, ill-behaved is maleducato, badly educated. The idea used to be at least that education
00:45:09.060
was not just stuffing your head full of facts, but actually it was how you behave, how you are
00:45:12.780
raised, how you comport yourself, how you exercise the virtues. Clearly a lot of people in this country
00:45:18.620
not very well-educated. And it's funny because Trump, who has brash behavior on occasion,
00:45:23.540
seems to be exhibiting very good behavior, very good education. Then she finishes up her silly point.
00:45:30.140
Should that be removed within a 36 to 72 hour period without my medication, I will be dead.
00:45:39.540
And I want to know what it is that you're going to do to assure that people like me who work hard,
00:45:45.540
we do everything we're supposed to do, can stay insured. It's not my fault that I was born with
00:45:50.560
this disease. It's not my fault that I'm a black woman and in the medical community,
00:45:55.060
I'm minimized and not taken seriously. Black women are minimized in the medical community
00:46:01.900
and in public. Like, give me a break. My goodness gracious. The only, the only three words you're
00:46:07.160
allowed to say today in, in the university and corporate American public life is black lives
00:46:11.260
matter. All the big tech companies changing their biographies, black lives matter. You're
00:46:15.620
marginalized. What are you talking about? And did you see the problem in her logic?
00:46:18.800
Like she said, she was born with this disease. And you know, if, if she goes three days without
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Obamacare, she'll die. How did she live before Obamacare? Presumably the woman isn't a 10 years
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old. How did she live before Obamacare? Fine. She said, I accomplished all these things. I'm so
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great and wonderful and important. I got a PhD. Okay. You did fine before Obamacare. And wasn't
00:46:40.180
Obamacare supposed to fix all of these problems once and for all? How come we still have so many
00:46:44.000
healthcare problems? Oh, cause Obamacare didn't do that. And all these wise, wonderful people now
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blaming Trump and through Trump is not really even talking about Trump. They're blaming America.
00:46:55.160
The best hit of the night was a woman who was, who was crying. She came out and she talked about
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how her mother just died from coronavirus. Trump handled this question very, very well. Take a
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listen. Hi, Mr. President, Mr. George. Hi everyone. My name is Flor Cruzeta. Sorry if I can't hold my
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hold my tears. I love what you just did. I came on 2006 with my mom from Nomenica Republic. Sorry.
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She's just there. She's trying to gather her thoughts, obviously emotional.
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Just take your time. That's fine. George has plenty of time, I hope, right?
00:47:41.060
Absolutely. Thank you. You see a real human empathy here. This woman's mother just died
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from coronavirus. She's obviously very upset by it. And Trump is very comforting, actually,
00:47:49.060
Terry. Just take your time. Comforting in all the senses of the word. He's very nice to her,
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but he's also saying, hey, don't worry. You'll be strong. Don't worry. To give strength is to
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comfort, right? Yeah, George has plenty of time. It's okay. So she gathers herself and she's a
00:48:00.580
supporter of Trump. She says her mother was a supporter and she's a supporter. Then she asks a
00:48:03.700
question about how he's going to fix immigration. What would you do for our immigration system? What
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would you change to make more people like me and like her to become citizen involved?
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Okay. And there's the question, right? And I was wondering, why did they let this woman through
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who's so emotional, so, so sympathetic, so pro-Trump? Why, why would ABC and Stephanopoulos
00:48:28.980
allow this nice question in? And I realized then it's because her question involves this
00:48:34.420
tough issue, which is she says, how are we, I'm so sympathetic, how are we going to
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get more and more immigrants into the country? And the trouble is that actually across party lines,
00:48:42.900
the majority of Americans want to dramatically reduce immigration, not because anybody hates
00:48:47.540
anybody, not because anyone's bigoted or prejudiced or whatever word you want to use,
00:48:51.860
but simply because we've taken in, we've taken way, way more people than anywhere else in the world.
00:48:56.580
Over the last 60 years, it's been the largest mass movement of humans in the history of the world.
00:49:00.900
And we're discouraging assimilation and we're telling people to hate this awful,
00:49:03.940
terrible country like these, uh, these academics and these experts have been saying now for a long
00:49:08.980
time. And so we just can't do it. We can't take all of those people in. So it puts Trump in a tough
00:49:12.900
corner because he's either got to go along and reverse his immigration plan and harm himself
00:49:17.860
with the public broadly and with his base, or he's got to seem like he's being mean to this
00:49:23.060
very sympathetic woman who likes him. What does he do? He says, we're gonna have a good immigration
00:49:26.980
plan. And then he starts talking about the specifics, her, her mother giving this personal
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comfort. He did extraordinarily well here. It was one of the best performances I've seen from him.
00:49:36.340
I'm perfectly willing to call out things when I think he does something that's not really smart
00:49:40.420
or does not really help him. Last night, he really helped himself. One last thought to leave you
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one. Kanye West, Kanye West tweets out yesterday that he's the new Moses. Kanye West said, I need
00:49:53.460
to see everybody's contracts at Universal and Sony. I'm not going to watch my people be enslaved. I'm
00:49:57.780
putting my life on the line for my people. The music industry and the NBA are modern day slave ships.
00:50:01.940
I'm the new Moses. He's catching a lot of flack for saying this, that Kanye West is Moses.
00:50:06.900
Love that. He's right. He's right. I said this earlier when Kanye was saying he was going to run
00:50:12.020
for president. I read his platform and I said, look, it's obviously eccentric and he's a performer
00:50:16.500
and an entertainer. I said, but at a base philosophical level, this guy gets politics
00:50:23.780
better than 70% of even elected Republicans and certainly than the entire left. Kanye West,
00:50:29.140
he's an idiot. He's a fool. He's a rube. He's a deplorable and an irredeemable. He didn't know
00:50:32.980
anything. That guy knows more than a lot of people. What he's talking about here in this media
00:50:37.220
establishment and more broadly, the liberal establishment is a modern day slavery of the mind.
00:50:41.700
It is a slavery of the mind that seeks, but to destroy our culture.
00:50:47.860
Vox.com, the liberal outlet is now going after Beethoven, trying to destroy Beethoven. Maybe
00:50:52.100
we'll try to get to that tomorrow. It trying to destroy the whole culture. That is a mental slavery
00:50:56.740
that is going to tear people apart, tear our culture apart. And it's being pushed at the highest
00:51:01.300
levels with the wise and the experts. And the one consolation we have, I know I say often on the show
00:51:06.100
that a conservative consolation is that reality reasserts itself in the end. Another one is providence.
00:51:11.700
Providence. The way that even bad things get turned for good in this world. And they do it not because
00:51:18.260
of any cockamamie academic theory. They do it because God says so, darn it. And all those bitter
00:51:25.460
clinging, deplorable, irredeemable rube idiots who believe in crazy concepts like God, you know,
00:51:31.300
against the will of all of the white lab coats. Those people, those common foolish people often
00:51:38.180
turn out to be right. Even when it's Kanye West, even when it's Donald Trump. Peace in the Middle
00:51:43.620
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